Social, group or collective psychology Books

Congratulations! You are a mum - you have been given the greatest gift in the world. When those beautiful baby eyes look back with unconditional love, trust and belief in you, there is no greater feeling. And now, it is your joy, your passion, and, yes,...

This is the official coach's guide to Make the Leap: Think Better, Train Better, Run Faster. Make the Leap is centered around one key idea: Think better, train better. What most athletes lack is a mental framework for thinking about their training. Make...

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Like a cross between Forrest Gump and a TED Talk on the latest medical innovations.Based on research and interviews with scientists and patients, The Sun Waker aims to captivate all while educating on different diseases and their potential solutions...

Это совсем другая книга. Она написана для мечтателей этого мира, для тех людей, которые знают, что нечто другое возможно, хотя инструментов для этого не имеют. А что, если бы я вам сказал, что такие инструменты существуют? И возможности, о которых вы...

Releasing Your Story: A Path to RediscoveryThings, both good and bad, happen in our lives every day – but what meaning and importance do we attach to them? Draining marital difficulties, financial hardships, career dissatisfaction … the disappointments...

This book advances a serious consideration of how the goals and practices of psychology can be informed and enriched by Buddhist traditions that transcend the individual to consider the interconnectedness of all things, and the...

Love and money are important aspects of the everyday lives of couples. This book focuses on the daily routines of disagreement, conflict and joint decisions on these, and other issues such as work, leisure and children, create in the household.Central to...

If people have ever told you you're too much, if you feel everything at super size, if you get really excited about things, if you dive in with both feet, no holds barred you're probably an intensive.And this book is for you.Written for...

Despite changes to laws and policies across most western democracies intended to combat violence to women, intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) remains discouragingly commonplace. Domestic Violence and Psychology: Critical Perspectives on Intimate...

This edited volume provides an up-to-date review of current research on ostracism, social exclusion, and rejection. The book shows why exclusion and rejection occur, how they affect the excluded individuals, and the consequences they might have for...

What makes for strong and enduring relationships? It is a question of increasing scientific and popular interest as it has become clear that relationships can make life happier, healthier, and longer. In this collection, the reader will find an overview...

Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates.Contributors...

In today's service economy, many jobs require that applicants have a smiling face, helpful disposition and the ability to interact in a friendly manner with others. Or in the case of law enforcement or bill collecting, an employee can be required to be...

This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in...

The baby boomer generation grew up in the 1950s when there existed the general belief that the Cold War was the greatest threat to the world order, and a frightening possibility. It was difficult to believe, then, that it could get worse, but the same...

This book investigates amaXhosa circumcision and the psychological processes involved. Lauraine Vivian employs concepts such as resilience, orthodoxy, broken men, and reciprocity to examine the experiences of men who have developed mental health issues...

Gullibility, whether we like it or not, is a fundamental characteristic of human beings. In The Social Psychology of Gullibility, Forgas and Baumeister explore what we know about the causes, functions, and consequences of gullibility, and the social...

In this provocative and necessary book, Robert K. Beshara uses psychoanalytic discursive analysis to explore the possibility of a genuinely anti-colonial critical psychology. Drawing on postcolonial and decolonial approaches to Islamophobia, this book...

"This is such a useful book for applied psychology researchers - everything you need to think about at the start of a new study is there in one place.”Sam Cartwright-Hatton, Professor of Clinical Child Psychology, University of Sussex,...

"Read this if you feel like you have made too many mistakes to become something amazing." -Shana Pryor, PhD, psychology fellow, LT, MSC, USN, Naval Hospital Okinawa, Japan"...an important narrative about interrupting the family cycle of violence and...

'So, What's In It For Me?' ... - Is the most personally unacknowledged, yet frequent question each of us asks ourselves every single day of our lives. - Is the existential question which drives our pursuit of Authenticity; - Authenticity...

"Mi sento malata, stanca e vecchia. Non ho più energia per nulla. Sto solo aspettando. Aspetto una parola gentile, aspetto che si faccia sentire, aspetto di essere riconosciuta. Non riesco a capire cosa sto facendo di sbagliato, non va bene...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sozialpsychologie, Note: 1,3, SRH Hochschule Riedlingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit einigen Jahren beschäftigen sich Politik und Wirtschaft mit dem Phänomen der Unterbesetzung von Frauen...

Lydia, a resilient woman who had managed to rebuild her life after a traumatic past, is confronted with unexpected love that threatens to unravel her progress. Gabriel, a successful individual with a satisfying life, finds himself irresistibly drawn to...

Deep down we don't quite understand why humanity has been so systemically deprived from living in a cleverly designed civilised world. For a species that can land a spacecraft on a soaring asteroid and develop extraordinarily lethal weaponry, why is it...

Non-accidental injuries to children usually are caused by parents who are addicted or neglectful of their child's basic needs for nurturance. The road to recovery and optimum health draws from an integrative process of self-awareness along with tools for...

This book, Toxic Relationship: A Psychological Point of View, might give one hope, a sense of understanding and learning on how they should behave with difficult relationship. It will help individuals make proper decisions during difficult situations...

Communication is the most important facet in any relationship, and the lack of it is also unarguably the major challenge that exists among people in this society. In A Time to Talk and a Time to Listen, author and relationship counsellor Tinuola M...

Since around the 1970's, the world has witnessed a technological revolution equaling no less than a global paradigm shift in the way we communicate in our social relationships. The impact of the new technology has impacted every aspect of our lives from...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

On Becoming a Psychologist explores the professional identity construction of psychology students, examining their entry into the psychology profession from a socio-cultural perspective.

This book explicates 'bullying' as a concept and as a social and cultural phenomenon that has become a defining reality of the times in which we live. It discusses the steps taken to address the issue and analyses their efficacy.

Abdennur argues that the clash of Western and Arab cultures is partly rooted in the different styles of thinking. In an attempt to understand the Arab culture and its potential, he focuses on underlying epistemological styles rather than on manifest...

The Primal Wound is a seminal work which revolutionizes the way we think about adoption. It describes and clarifies the effects of separating babies from their birth mothers as a primal loss which affects the relationships of the adopted person...

How do people manage their environments? What processes are basic to the interactions between people and their environments? These questions are central to almost all areas of psychology but in a more narrow sense are the heart of environmental...

First published in 1987. The tragedy of the inner city black delinquent is a serious problem in our society. There are many reasons for this state of affairs, and a host of solutions are required. The Inner World of the Black Juvenile Delinquent: Three...

Hailed on publication as "an impressive integration of postmodernism and relational psychoanalysis" (James Hansel) and "an intelligent and stimulating account of where the issues of identity, gender, and difference are joined" (Jessica Benjamin), Lynne...

Critical appreciations of George A. De Vos, a pioneer in the cross-cultural application of projective techniques (M. Suarez-Orozco, P. Lerner), and De Vos's own reminiscences, are followed by contributions true to the spirit of De Vos's methodology. They...

This unique book brings together research and theorizing on human-animal relations, animal advocacy, and the factors underlying exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals.Why do we both love and exploit animals? Assembling some of the world's...

First published in 2005. This is a Special Issue of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Volume 11, Number 4, 2005 focusing on Doris K. Miller. It includes works on her being an active psychologist, as being a pioneer of peace psychology and...

This book provides a unique overview of the development of justice-related beliefs in different socialization contexts, and also of the role this plays in protecting mental health and promoting career development for adolescents and young adults. A range...

Face-to-face conversation between two or more people is a universal form, and perhaps the basic form, of social interaction. It is the primary site of social interaction in all cultures and the place where social and cultural meaning takes shape...